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Cattaraugus County, New York
Cattaraugus County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Little Valley
Year Organized: 1808
Square Miles: 1,310
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Court House: 303 Court Street
County Courthouse
Little Valley, NY 14755-1028
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
from a Seneca Indian word meaning "bad smelling banks,"
referring to the odor of natural gas leaking from rock seams
Demographics:
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History
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Cattaraugus County is in the southwest part of New York State. Eric County bounds it on the north, Allegany to
the east, Chautauqua to the west, and the counties of McKean and Warren in Pennsylvania are on the south.
Cattaraugus County was formed from Genesee County on March 11, 1808, but the county did not have a Board of
Supervisors and the courts until 1817 when the county had the required 500 voters to elect a member for the New York
State Assembly. More Facts
Geography
Cattaraugus County is in the southwestern part of the state, immediately north of the Pennsylvania border. The
southern part of Cattaraugus County is the only area of western New York that was not covered by the last ice age
glaciation and is noticeably more rugged than neighboring areas that had peaks rounded and valleys filled by the
glacier. The entire area is actually a dissected plateau of Pennsylvanian and Mississippian age, but appears
mountainous to the casual observer. The plateau is an extension of the Allegany Plateau from nearby Pennsylvania.
Southern Cattaraugus County is part of the same oil field, and petroleum was formerly a resource of the area. It is
now mostly played out, but natural gas continues to be extracted.
A continental divide between the Mississippi River and Great Lakes watersheds runs through Cattaraugus County
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 1,322 square miles (3,425 kmē), of which, 1,310
square miles (3,392 kmē) of it is land and 12 square miles (32 kmē) of it (0.94%) is water.
The northern border of the county is formed by Cattaraugus Creek.
Neighboring Counties:
- Erie County, New York - north
- Wyoming County, New York - northeast
- Allegany County, New York - east
- McKean County, Pennsylvania - southeast
- Warren County, Pennsylvania - southwest
- Chautauqua County, New York - west
Cities and Towns:
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- Allegany |
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- Allegany Reservation |
Reservation |
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- Ashford |
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- Carrollton |
town |
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- Cattaraugus |
village |
Incorporated Area |
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- Cattaraugus Reservation |
Reservation |
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- Coldspring |
town |
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- Conewango |
town |
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- Dayton |
town |
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- Delevan |
village |
Incorporated Area |
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- East Otto |
town |
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- East Randolph |
village |
Incorporated Area |
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- Ellicottville |
village |
Incorporated Area |
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- Farmersville |
town |
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- Franklinville |
village |
Incorporated Area |
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- Freedom |
town |
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- Gowanda |
village |
Incorporated Area |
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- Great Valley |
town |
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- Hinsdale |
town |
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- Humphrey |
town |
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- Ischua |
town |
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- Leon |
town |
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- Limestone |
village |
Incorporated Area |
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- Little Valley
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Seat) |
village |
Incorporated Area |
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- Lyndon |
town |
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- Machias |
town |
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- Mansfield |
town |
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- Napoli |
town |
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- New Albion |
town |
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- Oil Springs Reservation |
Reservation |
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- Olean |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Otto |
town |
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- Perrysburg |
village |
Incorporated Area |
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- Persia |
town |
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- Portville |
village |
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- Randolph |
village |
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- Red House |
town |
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- Salamanca |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- South Dayton |
village |
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- South Valley |
town |
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- Yorkshire |
town |
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The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we've given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic
features of our country!"
But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.
Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally,
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